helvetica documentary transcript

Several designers in this documentary say that it isn't so much the letters of an advertisement's slogan that matter much - it's the space in between the letters. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type. WebThe official trailer for "Helvetica", a documentary film by Gary Hustwit. Massimo Vignelli designed the American Airlines logo in 1966 with Helvetica. If there is any that deserves the honour, it is definitely Helvetica. Must watch for designer, to add a perspective about helvetica. But it's also: a musing on the history of modern graphic design. Interviewees in Helvetica include some of the most illustrious and innovative names in the design world, including Erik Spiekermann, Matthew Carter, Massimo Vignelli, Wim Crouwel, Hermann Zapf, Neville Brody, Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Bierut, David Carson, Paula Scher, Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Experimental Jetset, Michael C. Place, Norm, Alfred Hoffmann, Mike Parker, Bruno Steinert, Otmar Hoefer, Leslie Savan, Rick Poynor, Lars Muller, and many more. Many designers believe this typeface is used for its modernism, legibility and its clarity. My family and I saw this movie at the Gene Siskel Theatre in downtown Chicago yesterday evening. l suppose you could say the typefaces are, those that are fully open to interpretation, or merely have one association attached to, A typeface made of icicles or candy canes, Typography has this real poverty of terms, Beyond x height and cap height and weight, l find when Tobias and l work on projects, we tend to use a lot of qualitative terms, Working on the typeface for Esquire years, lt needs to have that orange plastic Olivetti. Fans of Helvetica tout its legibility and its versatility, but not everyone is a fan. Michael Bierut: It's The Real Thing. An interview with semiotic professors or cultural historians or even the man on the street wouldn't have hurt, but at least the film doesn't pretend to be something it is not. . Jonathan Hoefler: And it's hard to evaluate it. point where we accepted that it's just there. l see stuff and to me, if it makes me go. To work there, to do. (Providing the films dominant voice of authority is Rick Poynor, a writer who speaks from a deep knowledge of designs evolution and internal discourse.). As such this sat on my "watch this" list for over a year I'd guess, as a perusal of my queue always offered me something that seemed better or, if I'm honest, easier to watch. Helvetica encompasses the worlds of design, advertising, psychology, and communication, and invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day. . work that was as inspiring as their work, And l wanted to make work that looked like, and l'd go to the local art store, l'd go to, album the way l thought it was supposed to, properly and thing would crackle and break, And Zagorski told me to let go of the press, l realized that type had spirit and could, that it was its own palate, a broad palate to, And l decided l would take the title literally, so l decided what l'd do is list every state, And l didn't have any scientific evidence of, so l decided to base it on the last Reagan. Erik Spiekermann: I mean, everyone puts their history into their work. There's no choice. If you are an aspiring designer and have not yet watched Helvetica, it is time you do so. Underground brings these stories into the light. Some designers find Helvetica to be predictable and boring. I like both sides of the argument. . who'd been one of the Sixties' high priests, it's right there in the name, Unimark, the, to his way of thinking irrational new way of, lt seemed like the barbarians were not only, ln the '70s, the young generation was after, by using all kinds of typefaces that came. It was by far, the most NOT-boring documentary i've ever seen. Fonts are almost like the air we breathe. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Massimo Vignelli: You can say, "I love you," in Helvetica. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will Subscribe to our mailing list to receive the latest updates, exclusive content, subscription deals delivered straight to your inbox! As part of their jump to worldwide use, the name was changed to Helvetica, meaning The Swiss. "Helvetica Quotes." Helveticais a cinematic exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type. dealing with mother in laws is just horrific. In 2008, the documentary was nominated for "Truer Than Fiction Award" during the Independent Spirit Awards. Inclusion of the font in home computer systems, such as the Apple Macintosh in 1984, only further cemented its ubiquity. And the Swiss pay more attention to the background, so that the counters and the space between characters just hold the letters. Of course not. well, it's like a person, if you are slightly, you're not going to walk around in tight T-, And Helvetica is heavy in the middle. Designers also point out typographic "bad habits" from earlier works around the 1950s which Helvetica tried to fix. lt's a mark of, it's a badge that says we're part of modern, Helvetica has almost like a perfect balance, and that perfect balance sort of is saying to, or problems getting through the subway or. And what they were against was Helvetica. The initial interviews discuss the original creator Alfred Hoffmann, and his goals for creating a clean, legible type relating to the ideals of the Modernist movement. l know you got exactly what l was saying. It seems like gravity? Of course that may be a bit of an exaggeration, however it is pretty close to the truth. Helvetica is coproduced by Veer, a major distributor and developer of typefaces and stock images. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The focus is on the development of the Helvetica typeface, but the discussion broadens to treat of graphic design in general and what it says about our culture. And that's the, area to me where it gets more interesting. Of Course Not. My father said, that's impossible, you cannot call a typeface after a name of a country. No unattractive font will stop me from buying a product I want or need, and on the other hand the most attractive font in the world will not make me buy a product I do not want or need. Helvetica screened this week at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, TX where it was very well-received. Interviewer: Why, fifty years later, is it still so popular? They'll still follow the plot, but, you know, be convinced or affected. Helvetica was created in the year 1957 and was originally named Neue Haas Grotesk. lt's the most stressful job l've ever had. For example, illegible hand-made lettering and cramped cursive. Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. They play a very subtle and almost unnoticed and usually uncommented upon role in our daily lives. Period. Now you might think this is a dry and boring subject (as I did before I saw the film) but it is in fact a Independent Spirit's Truer than Fiction Award, Helvetica watch the design documentary here, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helvetica_(film)&oldid=1142017718, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 02:27. They have a different point of view from mine. there to just hold and display and organize, the information. Over the years, a wide range of variants have been released in different weights, widths and sizes, as well as matching designs for a range of non-Latin alphabets. Is Helvetica the greatest font every designed? As many others have already said a documentary film that appears to be about the font Helvetica (or indeed any font) is hardly something that is screaming out to a wide audience or likely to be screening to packed crowds in the American heartlands. The packaging of the Blu-ray version was designed by Experimental Jetset, who also appeared in the film, and printed by A to Z Media.[3]. DNA is just a couple of letterforms like that. The two perspectives come together humorously toward the end of the film, when the Swiss publisher and graphic designer Lars Mller walks through London and points his finger, with deadpan sobriety, at various examples of Helvetica. It's a documentary about the creation of the Helvetica font, sure. The social and psychological ways in which Helvetic informs all our lives are quite fascinating. It's a little worrying, I admit, but it's a very nerdish thing to do. Imagining the film from an outsiders perspective, I might have been confused early on that Vignelli created Helvetica. Elegantly shot by Luke Geissbuhler, the film presents interviews with prominent designers spanning three generations, from old-guard heroes Vignelli, Matthew Carter, and Wim Crouwel, to mid-career pros Michael Bierut and David Carson, and young hipsters Danny van den Dungen (from Experimental Jetset) and Michael C. Place (formerly with the Designers Republic). What they do is more than just logos and corporate branding - they design the type that we read every day in newspapers and magazines, onscreen and on television. one of the artists of the Stijl movement. But now it's become one of those defaults, partly because of the proliferation of the, it was the default on the Apple Macintosh, and then it became the default on Windows, which copied everything that Apple did, as, because it's ubiquitous; it's a default. Helvetica hasn't got *any* of that. The subject is at once esoteric and universal. Do Not Sell or Share my Personal Information. It wasn't just a film about a font. There is a global conspiracy scheming to control the general populace that is run by the most unlikely suspects: graphic designers. The New York Sun editor Steve Dollar claimed the movie was "more compelling than might be imagined."[2]. The film is a magic journey through design from modernism to postmodernism. How much success this font would have continued to have had the computer revolution not occurred is a matter of some debate. We live in a media-saturated environment that exposes us to a daily stream of visual information, and the typography that shapes these visual messages can determine how we respond. It took me six months to get an issue out while juggling school and other stuff. So, this subculture of designers produces work that shapes our lives and influences the way we see things. So it's all set in Dingbats, it is the actual font, you could highlight it, but it really wouldn't be worthwhile, it's not, Just because something's legible, doesn't, and that may require a little more time or. Now owned by Linotype, Helvetica is licensed ubiquitously around the world. Helvetica was designed in Switzertland by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffman at a time after the war in 1957 when people needed a sense of order. Both logos work and both logos are timeless. For us, the visual disease is what we have, A good typographer always has sensitivity, Typography is really white, it's not even, it's not the notes, it's the space you put, and the novelty at the time was the fact of, lt's the only airline in the last forty years, changing American Airlines is still the, l can write the word 'dog' with any typeface, But there are people that think when they, What Helvetica is: it's a typeface that was. The process of creating a typeface fascinated the director, so he set forth to illuminate the underappreciated discipline. (You know, the one that looks like this .) With the first 20 minutes I was intrigued and interested, unfortunately as the minutes ticked by my interested faded and the intrigue had completely disappeared. This might be close, these buses are kind, That was sort of the rise of what's referred, aesthetic for two, three, four, five years, as that trend worked its way down from the, that all those designers could perhaps do. And in fact, maybe they don't exist.". I'm not entirely sure of anyone except maybe the people involved in making this film or in a related field need 80 minutes worth of information on Helvetica. So here and there l think with the records, and l think there was one instance, it was, You know, in a more funny direction and in. Designers also point out typographic "bad habits" from earlier works around the 1950s which Helvetica tried to fix. Is this a movie for committed typophiles or for a world increasingly aware of typography? There was a time when I was editor, publisher, and writer of a small newspaper in Spain. An interesting film if you are a total geek such as I am, but if you are looking for Rock XX this probably wont entertain you. I use several metrics in this. I can teach anyone from the street how to design a reasonable business card, newsletter, but if I bring the same group of the street in and play a CD and say, OK, let's interpret that music for a cover, well, 9 out of 10 people will be lost, and they're gonna do something really corny and expected, and one person's gonna do something amazing because that music spoke to them and it sent them in some direction where nobody else could go, and that's the area for me where it gets more interesting and exciting, and more emotional, and that's where the best work comes from. Alfred Hoffmann: [showing book of type samples] Here are the first trials of Neue Haas Grotesk, which was the first name of Helvetica. and l was like, oh man, how disappointing, And l went through all my fonts, which at, uhm, well, it still is for that matter, and, And l finally came to the bottom and there, which of course now it's Zapf Dingbats so. They give words a certain coloring. Hello??? of a typeface without resorting to things are. (We think typography is black and white, he says. No, absolutely not. But, for better or for worse, in this age of political correctness, we tend rise to our lowest expectation, and Helvetica stands ready to take the challenge. Others associate Helvetica with the growth of mass production and lack of personality. Helvetica is a neo-grotesque or realist design, one influenced by the famous 19th century typeface Akzidenz-Grotesk and other German and Swiss designs. Its use became a hallmark of the International Typographic Style that emerged from the work of Swiss designers in the 1950s and 60s, becoming one of the most popular typefaces of the 20th century. On New Yorks packed subways, violations of personal space are unavoidablean inevitability that emboldens more predatory behavior. is that they shouldn't be aware of it at all. oh it's brilliant when it's done well. Helvetia is the Latin name of Switzerland. So, we have design, here shown through type fonts as an answer to a need, as the representation of a certain moment in time, or as the icon for certain political/life postures. WebHelvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. Coke. Interviewees in Helvetica include some of the most illustrious and innovative names in the design world, including Erik Spiekermann, Matthew Carter, Massimo Vignelli, Wim Crouwel, Hermann Zapf, Neville Brody, Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Bierut, David Carson, Paula Scher, Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Experimental Jetset, Michael C. Place, Norm, Alfred Hoffmann, Mike Parker, Bruno Steinert, Otmar Hoefer, Leslie Savan, Rick Poynor, Lars Muller, and many more. With its clean, smooth lines, it reflected a modern look that many designers were seeking. so l'm never sort of a classical type guy. their sense that they had something to say. Rick Poynor: Maybe the feeling you have when you see particular typographic choices used on a piece of packaging is just "I like the look of that, that feels good, that's my kind of product." It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th . Unfortunately, the documentary doesn't try to extend the abilities of the filmmakers to any degree whatsoever. interesting body of work over a lifetime? Show less. The Hass Foundry and the Hoffman family keep the original artwork for the design of the typeface as a way to remember just how important this new design became over the years and how it influenced design thinking around the world. The fact that a movie about Helvetica could have such wide appeal speaks to this cultural shift. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type. WebHelvetica is a beautifully created documentary about the Helvetica font. ln the beginning, if you see the sketches. . the more you appreciate it when it's terrific. Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. designing will be still being used in twenty, l got married about three years ago. and descenders and all that kind of thing. There's nothing ''extramarital'' about that. Those decisions you make become expressions of who you are.. The documentary shows the life cycle of this font mostly by the differing opinions of the artists that they interview throughout the movies. For example, Stefan Sagmeister believes that the typeface is too boring and limiting. about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. and it's set in a boring, non-descript way. After the hurly-burly of the El Bulli kitchen, day two of the New View film season sees a quieter world, though one just as arcane and cerebral. It is the space between the blacks that really makes it.) Later we learn about Helveticas birth in 1957 as the brainchild of Eduard Hoffmann, director of the Haas Type Foundry, in Mnchenstein, Switzerland. It is indeed a film about looking, as the camera repeatedly picks out the fonts beloved characters in various states of well-being, from crisp new highway signs to letters peeling off the Berlin Wall. . Published: March 10, 2011 I recently saw Helvetica, a documentary directed by Gary Hustwit about the typeface of the same name it is available streaming and on DVD from Netflix, for those of you who have a subscription. Architects and designers from top firms along with influencers and experts will examine strengths and weaknesses of current design thinking and practices, exploring issues like research, technology, and wellness. I was just experimenting, really. Originally named Neue Haas Grotesk (New Haas Grotesque), it was rapidly licensed by Linotype and renamed Helvetica in 1960, being similar to the Latin adjective for Switzerland, Helvetia. Wim Crouwel: You're always a child of your time, and you cannot step out of that. You know, that's called an army. Beyond her commentary, however, Helvetica is largely an insiders view of the font. You know, there it is, and it seems to come from no where. l've done other people's wedding invites. His is the first full-fledged interview, and as we see him sketch letters in pencil and talk about the importance of spacing, it is easy to think that the characters are his own invention. Period. trifecta of design-oriented films, the second of which was Objectified. Hoffmann was the president of the Haas Type Foundry, while Miedinger was a freelance graphic designer who had formerly worked as a Haas salesman and designer. l did, which believe me, is just the worst job you. It is just something we don't notice usually but we would miss very much if it wouldn't be there. Directed by Gary Hustvit, the film is the first of a trilogy examining elements of contemporary design. Helvetica is a beautifully created documentary about the Helvetica font. They always have a, in the sense that l leave them alone when l, not because it's good for them or it fits the, l think we all do that. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Awards What we have is a climate now in which the very idea of visual communication and graphic designif we still want to call it thatis accepted by many more people, Poynor says and goes on to show us how users personalize their MySpace pages with their own choices of fonts and graphics. probably better than l can explain it now, is that basically there was this group that. Design for Equity, Must-Read, Must-Reads, sustainability, Urbanism, 15 Essential Architecture and Design Reads for 2023. The one bad review notwithstanding this is an honest, insightful film about the most ubiquitous of fonts, Helvetica. WebHelvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. Hearing about the different views on Helvetica is what makes this film so great. It just makes my words visible. This movie is brilliant. Jonathan Hoefler: And Helvetica maybe says everything, and that's perhaps part of its appeal. Learn more about funding opportunities with ITVS. obviously. of course, that some people thought that's, people using only three or four typefaces, l think this could be interesting to do for a, Yes, you could probably do it, but for one, and for the second would it really yield an. Type is saying things to us all the time. Helvetica is a documentary that interviews many graphic designers involved in the history or modern usage of the Helvetica typeface. Helvetica: A Documentary, A History, An Anthropology. but with a new set of theories to support it. The film was released on Blu-ray Disc in May 2008, produced by Matt Grady of Plexifilm. Those are the people, you know, putting their wires into our heads. Designers and writers explain how Helvetica was used by government entities because it gave them both an authoritative and human aspect at the same time. It was a clever device used to weave a story around graphic design, the importance of typography in the craft, and the passionate opinions on design in general elicited from this stellar cast of ber creative professionals. Directed by Gary Hustwit, it was released in 2007 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the typeface's introduction in 1957 and is considered the first of the Design Trilogy by the director. Hello??? It features a lot of designers and typographers who have widely diverging viewpoints on the Helvetica font. Or you just get this real whooo, kind of like, One of the things l've always really wanted. 2023. Helvetica emerges in that period, in 1 957, where there's felt to be a need for rational. Fonts don't just appear out of Microsoft Word: there are human beings and huge stories behind them."[1]. I just get a total kick out of it: they are my friends. The New York Subway System for example has all signs designed in Helvetica. illustration is already from that period, and we were impressed by that, because it, it shouldn't have a meaning in itself. | l just more, sort of, react to certain things. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Truth is, you will learn about so much more than just a typeface when watching Helvetica, you will learn about a design era, about how life and design intertwine on a daily basis. Lars M?ller: And I think I'm right calling Helvetica the perfume of the city. 2010-2023 Freepik Company S.L. Offering a perspective from outside the profession, Savan talks about Helveticas social role in cleaning up corporate images. Drink Coke, That is a quality they all want to convey. l've never sort of woken up with a typeface, you know, like some people . A film about typography, graphic design, and global visual culture, Helvetica looks at the proliferation of a single typeface. Learning about personal stories and beliefs in relation to design is a kind of magic. The interviewees are either Helvetica lovers or Helvetica haters, some are avid Helvetica users that now have moved on to other creative ideas but still give Helvetica an important position in their design journey. In addition to serving the creative community, it is one of the largest companies marketing typefaces directly to consumers, addressing this fast-emerging chapter in the history of graphic design head-on. that is a sort of a late-modernist thing. Helvetica must mean something different to readers, writers, schoolchildren, shopkeepers, scrapbookers, secretaries, sign makers, and other users around the world. it wasn't intended to be this cool thing, Well, we are less obsessed with Helvetica. lt's a font. Helvetica encompasses the worlds of design, advertising, psychology, and communication, and invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day. Hoffmann commissioned a former type salesman and freelance designer, Max Miedinger to draw a new typeface based on the nineteenth-century German workhorse Akzidenz Grotesk. WebHelvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. He believes that it was an OK typeface when it first came out but with the proliferation of computers and the use of Helvetica as a default it became over saturated and if a designer doesnt know how to give it the right space, then it has terrible flaws. Vignelli is a lover of Helvetica, for its great legibility and modern design. If that sounds boring to you, well guess what, it often is. I love the subject matter! But my father said, lf ever l have an idea of. Hustvit spoke to numerous designers and typographers to examine why the typeface, developed in 1957 at the Haas Foundry in Switzerland, became so ubiquitous. '', This was everywhere in the Fifties, this is, You cut to - this is after Helvetica was in. to clear away all this horrible, kind of like, lt must have been just fantastic. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. lt's very hard to do the more subjective, But if l bring the same group off the street, and say, ''Okay, now let's interpret that, that nobody else could go. One is a serious airline company and the other an irreverent clothing company. Amazingly, most of us walked out in wonder. Eduard Hoffman, as director of the Hass Foundry took on the responsibility of designing new, more versatile typeface which they originally called Neue Haas Grotesque. The type in an instant, in a single image, tells the story of its making, tells you about. to return to an earlier way of designing. The name is meant to be boring and neutral; and, indeed, Helvetica has been referred to as the little black dress of typefaces. The film subsequently toured film festivals, special events, and art house cinemas worldwide, playing in over 300 cities in 40 countries. This is an 80 minute long movie about a font. Helvetica was nominated for the 2008 Independent Spirit's Truer than Fiction Award. of both type foundries, Stempel and Haas. And that perfect balance sort of is saying to us - well it's not sort of, it *is* saying to us - "don't worry, any of the problems that you're having, or the problems in the world, or problems getting through the subway, or finding a bathroom all those problem aren't going to spill over, they'll be contained. Directed by Gary Hustvit, the film is the first of a trilogy examining Helvetica: Quick Facts. This is surely the best documentary I have seen. l don't know. Just because something is legible doesn't mean it communicates and, more importantly, doesn't mean it communicates the right thing. l'd love to do the uniforms, or you know, seats and the whole thing, the trucks and. 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